Hot to the Touch: VPN Appliance Market Scorching

September 13, 2004 - If - as tc pmag.com newspaper month - V PN services market is one of the most popular trades in the network industry, then, the market VPN products, is a positive hothead.

This has led to a new report from market research specialist In-Stat/MDR, which found that the firewall / VPN security equipment shipments up 27% in caught in 2003.

What is to promote such growth? According In - Stat researcher, the demand from enterprise customers, and by the various initiatives - collectively - from trial evaluation, VPN equipment, a comprehensive production deployment. As VPN equipment deployed in a production environment, In - Stat researchers pointed out that the company will inevitably abandon traditional solutions.

"Company also migrating from stand-alone perimeter firewall structure to a multi-layered network security, security features distribution network in all parts of the country, said: "Jisainisen, a senior analyst In-Stat/MDR, said in a statement. "This makes more refined security policy in the department, or even a working group on the basis of." According In - Stat researchers, enterprises are deploying low-end and SMB-class products to support departments, branch offices and remote applications.

Because it has a concentration of companies with 1,000 or more employees, North America currently accounts for about 49 per cent of the VPN equipment market. In - Stat think that this will change over time, and that Asia - Pacific region will be In "br> dominate this market.

Currently, in the year 2008, low-end and SMB product segments will continue to after the largest growth. Growth in the low-end and SMB-probably instigated complementary trend - integrated security features usually found in high-end firewall / VPN products enter a low-capacity products line. These features include application proxy, intrusion detection and prevention, and content filtering.

Which suppliers, Cisco and the Nordic giant Nokia dominates the high-end firewall and VPN equipment market in 2003. In other places, the SSL VPN shipments of a substantial revenue share grew by 160% in 2003, prompted, in the statistics said the company tries to provide secure remote access capability An increasing number of mobile workers. -- Stephen swoyer